The literature uses the Latin term Pax Germanica (German Peace) to describe such fictional post–War outcomes. The novels present stories of how ordinary citizens, men and women, cope with the daily humiliations of fascist military occupation and with the resentments of being a people under colonial domination. The stories deal with the politics, culture, and personalities who allowed the Fascist victories against democracy, and with the psychology of quotidian life in totalitarian societies. Dick SS-GB (1978), by Len Deighton and Fatherland (1992), by Robert Harris. Later novels of alternative history include: The Man in the High Castle (1962), by Philip K. The stories, novels, and plays of the alternative history genre usually feature the plot device of Axis military victory over the Allies the initial book is Swastika Night (1937), by Katherine Burdekin, a British novel published before Nazi Germany launched the Second World War in 1939. In speculative literature, the Hypothetical Axis victory in World War II is a common subject in works of alternative history (fiction) and of counterfactual history (non-fiction) which examine public and private life in the lands conquered by the Axis powers - Nazi Germany, the Empire of Japan, the Kingdom of Italy - in the Second World War (1937–1945).

The post-war world created by the victories of the Axis Powers in the novel The Man in the High Castle (1962), by Philip K.

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